Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
ALAN CHAMBERSThrough biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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